General Teaching Methods & Strategies

All teachers, but especially new teachers, will find these General Teaching Methods resources very helpful in setting up and structuring your lessons and classroom.

• Classroom Management Strategies & Advice
• Learner-Centered vs. Curriculum-Centered Teachers: Which Type Are You?
• Standards for Good Teaching
• Textbooks: Advantages and Disadvantages
• Levels of Questions in Bloom's Taxonomy
• Your Secret Weapon: Wait Time
• Problem-Solving

Cooperative Learning

Learn effective ways to teach in your classroom with these Cooperative Learning resources which are excellent in helping develop critical thinking skills in students.

• Teaching with Cooperative Learning
• Cooperative Learning
• More Cooperative Learning Teaching Strategies

Inclusion

These Inclusion resources include suggestions for using material adaptations effectively, helping special needs students become independent learners, and much more.

• Adapting Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science for the Inclusive Classroom
• Adapting Reading and Math Materials in the Inclusive Classroom
• Teaching Strategies for Using Materials in an Inclusive Classroom
• Adapt Lessons to Reach All Students
• More Inclusion Resources
• Discovering Math in Literature
• Planning Pyramid for Multi-Level Mathematics Instruction
• Teaching Mathematics to Gifted Students in a Mixed-Ability Classroom
• Math & Science Teaching Strategies

Teaching Reading & Language Arts

Browse through our resources for teaching the various aspects of Language Art to find suggestions and techniques to use in your classroom.

• Teaching Strategies for Reading
• Teaching Strategies for English Language Arts
• Journaling Teaching Strategies

Using Technology

Useful tools and techniques to help you integrate technology and assistive technology, as well as DVDs and television into your classroom, are found in these resources.

• Assistive Technology for Students with Mild Disabilities
• Stages to Technology Integration
• Technology Strategies for Music Education
• Integrating Technology

Addressing Special Needs

With these resources, you will be guided through principles that address accommodations and modifications with a printable checklist to help with IEPs.

• Teaching Students with Special Needs
• Effective Accommodations for IEPs
• Educating Children Who Are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing
• Universal Design for Learning
• More Special Needs Teacher Resources

Learning From Social Interactions

Choose from sample activities for student-to-student learning, along with the benefits and how to implement service-learning projects, and more.

• Student-to-Student Learning
• Use Service-Learning to Enhance Your Curriculum

The Classroom Environment

Teachers will learn ways to incorporate learning centers in their classroom, as well as how to effectively set up the physical aspects of their classroom to enhance student learning.

• Learning Centers
• Creating an Effective Physical Classroom Environment
• Conflict Resolution Lessons
• The Basics of Centers

Multiple Intelligences

Descriptions of what Multiple Intelligences are, ways to use them in assessments, and a chart of activities to enhance Multiple Intelligences are included in these resources.

• Multiple Intelligences: An Overview
• Using Multiple Intelligences in Testing & Assessment
• Multiple Intelligences: A Three Part Series
• Multiple Intelligences Chart

Related Resources

If you enjoyed these resources for Classroom Management, click the links below to our related resources to find more help enhancing your classroom.

• Back to School Headquarters
• Professional Development Resources for Teachers
• New Teacher Resources
• Personalizing the Secondary Classroom